Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith is the best roller coaster in the world. That's Dad's opinion and he's sticking to it. Hey, the music is thrilling, the themeing is great, the launch is mind-blowing, and the ride is as smooth as butter. Sweet Emotion!

Why is it that the shortest rides at Disney World have the longest lines?

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster

Photo by Jeff_B

Photo by Express Monorail

The Preshow

Disney has great preshow's and this is one of the all time best. When you enter the building you enter the offices of G-Force Records. Posters line the walls from some of of the groups that are under contract to Disney. (Some are pretty popular.) There are a couple of displays of recording equipment.

You then enter a "recording studio" where the group Aerosmith is just wrapping up a recording session and getting ready to leave for a concert on the other side of town (Los Angles). As the band starts to leave they notice that they are leaving guests behind and badger their manager to bring the guests along. The manager orders up a limo, a super stretch limo, for the guests and promises the band that you'll get to the concert. The band leaves, the doors open and off you go into the ride.

The Attraction

You are loaded into a super duper hopped up, super (I said that once already, didn't I) stretch limo for your quick ride across town to the concert. This car is hot. It's also really cool. The car is decked out with the most powerful audio system ever put into any automobile. There are 126 speakers in every car. This limo rocks!

After being loaded into the car, the limo pulls up into the launch position. The countdown begins and

Screech, you hear the tires screech, the music blares, lights flash, and off you go. From 0 to 60 in less than 3 seconds. You scream through the streets of Los Angeles. You'll see street signs and landmarks (if you're eyes are open) of the City of Angels made famous throughout the years by scores of TV shows.

Along the way there you encounter a series of inversions. There are two loops and one corkscrew (in case you just had to know). On the first loop, you are pulling between 4 and 5G's. (More than the space shuttle astronauts.)

Each car has a different song in the sound track. These songs are Aerosmith classics, some of which have bee remastered just for this ride. For example "loving in the elevator" has become "loving on the roller coaster". The songs are tied to the car you enter. There are 5 different cars each has their own song. Here is the list of license tags and songs that go with them.

• 1QKLIMO - "Nine Lives"
• UGOGIRL - "Walk this Way" and "Lovin in the Elevator"
• BUHBYE - "Young Lust", "F.I.N.E.*" & "Love in an Elevator"
• H8TRFFC - "Back in the Saddle" & "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)"
• 2FAST4U - "Sweet Emotion"(live)

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster is one of the smoothest roller coasters you will ever ride. It's so smooth you won't even notice you're upside down most of the time.

The ride takes exactly 3 minutes and 12 seconds from the time you first start moving. That's exactly the length of one of Aerosmith's best songs "Sweet Emotion".

The Postshow

You exit the ride vehicles into what looks like an alley then into the ever present gift shop.

The Video

Here's a video about Rock 'n' Roller Coaster. It goes in to lots of detail.

Fun Facts

Here are some interesting tidbits -

• The 125 speakers include 24 sub-woofers. Each car has 32,000 watts of onboard audio.
• The track is 3,406 feet long.
• There are over 900 speakers inside the ride.
• More than 60 hours of music is played in the line before it repeats.

History

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster came to Disney Hollywood Studios in June of 1999.

• It was Disney's first "upside down" roller coaster.
• It was not the first Disney ride to use linear induction technology (the launching system). Disney pioneered that technology in Tomorrowland Transit Authority.

Dad's Ride Information Table

The Fine Print

Here's some fine print information

• Due to the nature of the experience, service animals are not permitted on this attraction.
• Guests with young children may take turns experiencing attractions. See a Cast Member for additional information.
• For safety, you should be in good health and free from high blood pressure, heart, back or neck problems, motion sickness or other conditions that could be aggravated by this adventure.
• Guests must transfer from motorized scooter or ECV to an available wheelchair, then from the wheelchair to the attraction/ride vehicle.
• Expectant mothers should not ride.R

Rock n Roller coaster has it's own website.

Dad's Bottom Line

This may be the second fastest ride at Disney World (the cars at Test Track get up to 64 MPH), but it's by far the most thrilling.

In Dad's humble opinion this it the best ride anywhere!

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